Sentences with phrase «makes economic good»
So what makes economic good times bad for us?
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Sharing tasks makes you not only more emotionally resilient but also more economically resilient as well, Smith points out: «Flexibility and redundancy add up to greater resilience in the face of economic shocks.»
THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Jay Carney, press secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama, conceded that America «must do better to make clear our nation's will, capacity and commitment to work together to tackle our major fiscal and economic challenges.»
Poloz also is making better use of the press conferences that follow the quarterly economic reports.
At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January, Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget made the case why it's time for a «better capitalism.»
If one member of the household makes a good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay at home or work part - time.
So, our unsolicited advice to the administration, in its quest to spur economic growth: Make sure the world's best minds — the most creative risk takers, innovators, and job creators — continue to believe the American story.
This helps avoid involuntary bumping for customers, and it also makes good economic sense.
NAFTA negotiators are making «good progress» and they're «close on some major economic wins,» says the House Ways and Means chairman.
Those two things together make great benefit for the individuals and the corporations, and that reflects into kind of a good economic value.»
Brady says NAFTA negotiators are making «good progress» and they're «close on some major economic wins.»
In an interview on CNBC's «Squawk Box,» the Texas Republican said negotiators are making «good progress» and they're «close on some major economic wins.»
GreenBuilt searched for a healthy, durable, climate resilient material that could provide high - quality permanent housing as well as temporary shelter, and hempcrete (a bio-composite made of the hemp plant's inner woody core combined with a lime - based binder) appeared to be a superior option because of its sustainability and carbon sequestration properties, as well as its potential to spur economic development.
«Our economic infrastructure lives in a digital space, which means leveraging big data to streamline financial services to keep information secure, while also well organized and transparent, making it accessible for regulatory bodies,» says Teijeiro.
The larger point Wolfers seems to be making with his response to Trump is that looking at the number of record - high closes in a narrow period is not a particularly good indicator of economic performance — particularly for a president who inherited a stock market that was already relatively high in value.
Adds Etrit, 28, who was COO of Detroit - based smart building technology company Hepta Systems before leaving recently to co-found Kodelabs, a software development and real estate technology start - up, with Edi: «From an economic standpoint, immigrants only make this country better, because different minds think differently, and that's what makes this country amazing.
If we want to break past lackluster economic growth rates and make meaningful change in lives and livelihoods, we need to move beyond incremental innovation (think slightly - better iPhones) toward revolutionary innovation (think new energy systems, next - generation electronics, and cures for Cancer and Alzheimer's).
It's when retailers of all stripes try out their best specials in the hopes of luring consumers to spend, spend, spend for Christmas, which is of course the economic engine that makes the country go» round.
«What I can assure you obviously is he's going to make a good pick that can help him continue to further building a strong economy and continue creating jobs and continue focusing on long - term economic success.»
Along with managing Canada's performance during the global economic crisis, I am pleased our government brought forward positive measures to make Canada one of the world's best places to do business.
However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.
Behind all this banter lies a big idea: That by de-emphasizing economic growth and considering other things that people value, societies could make much better decisions about how to use their scarce resources.
Despite plenty of populist opposition, road tolls actually make good economic sense when it comes to building and maintaining roads and controlling congestion.
Ultimately, Amazon is going to make the decision that's best for itself — and it remains to be seen if they'll take the economic plights of the Rust Belt into consideration.
Slow economic growth, increasing extreme weather events and volatility in capital markets made the insurance business tumultuous in recent years, with employees facing upheaval in their day - to - day roles as well as layoffs.
In an economic downturn, the piece of the pie the players can get has shrunk, and so they have to make themselves better.
Well, Trump is an economic nationalist... and it's a campaign promise that's relatively easy to make good on.
Larson has helped him to develop an impressive portfolio that has been able to make Gates a lot of money in good economic periods and avoid catastrophic losses in downturns.
Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.
The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»
«The [county] Department of Economic Development floated some ideas, but after I drilled more deeply into it, I made the decision that the best interest of the state would be to unite behind the Port Covington location,» Kamenetz said in an interview.
Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.
That experience, together with influential research on monetary policy, convinced the economics profession that maintaining price stability is the best — or even the only — contribution monetary policy can make to promoting a country's economic and financial well - being.
«What one would expect during a period of economic growth is that the government would lay the basis for future prosperity using the financial resources made available to it during good times,» Ralston said in his Feb. 20 response in the legislature to the budget, according to the day's Hansard.
If he can cut the China trade deficit in half, it would be the best economic decision the US has made in a long time.
As a result, and because of the Bullwhip Effect, growth in developing economies is going to be jerked around more than people think, making for a good deal of cyclical economic contagion.
While it's possible that the resulting economic development would make up for those losses, even 50,000 well - paying jobs might not make up for billions in lost tax revenue.
In his most recent blog post, Alex makes a convincing case against Trump's protectionism, which are «not good for the economy or the market» and «undermines American economic growth.»
According to the Boston - based trading platform Quantodian, funding female - led businesses makes economic sense as those companies often perform better than others.
Raising the wage floor makes good economic sense.
These economic factors, as well as the rapidly evolving retail landscape, make it difficult to forecast accurately over a three - year period.
This mania for income trusts has me wondering how the rash of conversions from corporate entities to income trusts can make good economic sense.
In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.
That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.
Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.
I was intrigued by what is happening in Iceland, so the following is a piece I've written on it. It has some introductory macro-economics in it,  which I think it is good to keep in perspective as we consider the frantic attempts being made to prevent an economic depression.
Doing so is the best contribution we can make to helping promote both strong, steady economic growth and the flexibility needed to ease those adjustments and help our resource - rich country thrive.
This is made worse with the economic reality of two - income lifestyles, as women who work are still expected to do essentially all of the household work as well; this pushes women towards the fall - back position of remaining single.
It turns out that it wasn't just good luck or brilliant economic policy - making that accounted for the speed of the turnaround.
Tax cuts and economic growth are spurring a spending spree by U.S. companies on deal making as well as share buybacks.